Here’s the answer. And I keep thinking people know all this.
there is no blood test for ebola. Why would there be?
they have a very broad test they use. THe only definitive test is symptoms.
THis is the purest stupidity of the type that we sensed on election day 2012.
So, I’ll back off. And I am a nurse.
But I know this from when the nuns told us about the Titanic sinking. They said that the builders were so prideful that it was bound to sink - that any flaws would have been and were ignored.
It is pure ridiculousness that those entrusted with our protection have not quarantined west Africa. It will certainly happen eventually.
True or not, it’s at least a metaphor...for me.
And I always think ‘worst case’.
Viruses are mysterious. The flu of 1917 is still unknown in many ways.
When there is a vaccine for any particular virus, it is as a result of long term studies and some luck. THere’s no guarantee. AIDs was talked about as a mysterious killer for a long time before it was even known as a virus.
Ebola has been studied since 1976.
No drug company here has been hot on the trail to study it.
It’s costly and very low risk, as we’re not going to get it over here, oh, unless our boneheaded government and politicians obstruct protective measures we have enjoyed for two hundred years since our founding.
Now they are scrambling.
And everyone seems to expect everyone to just jump to it and fix it.
The Dallas hospital was not informed, nor was any hospital nor airline that they must expect ebola patients.
Maybe bammy knows they are not equipped maybe he doesn’t.
But they are not. And there is no massive protocol in place not even to save the lives of health care workers.
PCR and antigen ELISA certainly are specific tests for Ebola when set up that way.